How to Lose Weight (maybe …)
Grace Wilson - December 20, 2007
I hear a lot of people talking these days, as we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another, about losing weight. They’re all going to start diets after the holidays, begin new work-out regimens, and get healthier, once and for all! I have a new, non-scientific take on it, if anyone wants to try something different this time.
Consider the simple act of taking a walk. (I can laugh about this now, but I have done all of these things.) First, you have to plan the damn thing. If you’re like I was, you have to call your girlfriends to see who will go with you, then you have to decide on a date and time, then you have to think of where you’re going to walk, then you have to decide if you’re going to do something after, etc.
Assuming you get through all of that, then you have to get ready for your walk. Put on your walking “clothes” (as if you don’t walk in all of your clothes), fix your hair so it doesn’t bother you, maybe you need a hat or sunglasses, but of course you need a bottle of water, and you might need your wallet, or you might need to call someone (you never know…). Soon you’re wearing a backpack to carry all of your accoutrement's and you haven’t even started to think about what kind of music you’re going to need to get through this ordeal.
Ack! Stop! Sometimes we’re crazy, aren’t we? In this example, it’s a walk, but it could be any kind of physical exercise. We think it’s our fat weighing us down, but is it? My original intention may have been to lose some weight, but how in the world was I going to drop pounds if I couldn’t let go of anything?
Maybe we just need to free ourselves to find our balance. What would happen if we just walked out the door and didn’t come back for 30 minutes? Stroll, run, walk briskly (or not), sit in the park, or do whatever you fancy. I have a sneaking suspicion the “exercise” you do or don’t get won’t make the biggest difference in how much fat is stuck to your body. It’s something deeper than that - can’t you sense it?
When was the last time you exercised your freedom? See what it feels like to be unencumbered, to not carry your purse or your phone, to not distract yourself with music. Do you even know what you’re distracting yourself from?
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Posted by Grace Wilson at December 20, 2007 09:39 PM
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December 21, 2007 06:56 AM
The Day I Met Deepak Chopra
I had been doing some online communication with Deepak for about 8 months and had always looked forward to the day I would meet him in person.
There were many dreams and visions in which I would attend one of his workshops or lectures but would encounter him away from the workshop in an isolated environment and surprise him.
Finally I decided on his workshop at The Omega Institute in The New York Catskill mountains.
They put me in a cabin near the top of a mountain which was quite a walk upward just to get there. About a half hour before the workshop started I took a walk up the mountain toward my cabin trying to release an abundance of this nervous energy I had.
And lo and behold there was Deepak standing in front of my cabin with his hand held computer. This was the moment I had envisioned for nearly a year. Within my consciousness he seemed to be radiating light from his form. He didn't see me coming and I approached him and finally stood in front of him. I said "Hello Deepak".
He said "Hi".
Then I said, "Do you know who I am?"
He said, "Are you Todd?"
I said I was.
Then he said that this was the only spot on the mountain which his handheld computer picked up a single. We then went to the workshop.
The next morning I walked out of the cabin and there he was again with that computer.
He said "Good Morning" and started talking about exercise for he knew that I was a trainer.
Todd
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December 21, 2007 07:02 AM
I've gotten quite adept at not weighing myself down with personal *stuff* as I go from place to place. And, yes, it is freeing.
Unfortunately, when I travel with friends and family, I'm viewed as an extra pair of hands for transporting their limitless overflow. :)
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December 21, 2007 08:53 AM
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Todd
4. Posted by
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December 21, 2007 09:28 AM
Mieke - your story sounds eerily familiar. Deja vu ...
Todd - Many people have interesting stories about meeting Deepak. Yours is an exceptional one!
Psy - Yeah, I'm usually that person, too, since I don't have any kids, nor much stuff to tote around. That's a whole different pace of life, isn't it? (oh, I'm referring to parenthood) I don't know how parents do it. All the stuff you have to have with you all the time must really weigh you down.
(I don't know whether Noor's story is true or not since I've never liked soda. Could it really say that on a coke can?)
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Grace Wilson
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December 22, 2007 12:38 PM
Grace, hi :) Thanks for a fun blog! I've already taken a quick tour around the lake today, but there are so many cakes in my house right now that I know... I just know that this Christmas I'll put on some weight :D:D If I do (and also if I don't), this bubbling joy will surely propell me around the lake a number of times every day...
I hope you enjoy your holiday!
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December 24, 2007 06:16 AM
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Mieke - your story sounds eerily familiar. Deja
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I've gotten quite adept at not weighing myself
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The Day I Met Deepak Chopra
I had been do
Hi Grace,
The older you get the more difficult this is :)
I mean staying slim lol
Went with a (girl)friend to a Christmas market yesterday. At least we thought we went to it. When we arrived there the Christmas market was not there anymore. For some reason they closed it down 4 days earlier than was the intention.
What do you think women like to do at just that moment?
Exactly, eating in a fancy restaurant and then going shopping lol
Well, for the rest of the holidays we will have to walk every day for at least 5 miles to regain the weight we had, cause we closed our christmas party with a great dinner in the evening :)
Happy holidays and keep the spirit of the season!
Mieke